August 03, 1895

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Features

The Manufacture of Artificial Limbs

New Prizes for Motor Carriage Competitions

The Physics of the Bicycle

Atlanta Exposition Notes

Leather Cannon

Decisions Relating to Patents

A Bracket Support for Shades, Curtains, Etc.

A Case to Hold a Bicycle

An Improved Thill Coupling

An Iron Grinding Mill of Large Capacity

Improved Repeating Pistol

The Avondale Marble Company's New Crane

Hydraulic Caisson Sinking for Foundation Piers

The Rawhide Cannon

A Flying Dormouse

To Inventors - August 3, 1895

Departments

Letters

Correspondence - August 3, 1895

Recommended

New Books and Publications - August 3, 1895

Departments

The Heavens in August - August 3, 1895

Business and Personal - August 3, 1895

Notes and Queries - August 3, 1895

Recently Patented Inventions - August 3, 1895

Index of Inventions - August 3, 1895

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